The Rainbow Zoku.

The maintainer chapter of Loci. It keeps the infrastructure and opens the door for new maintainers.

What this is

A zoku is a voluntary affiliation built on shared values, not birth, employment or contract. The word comes from Hannu Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief trilogy, where the Rainbow Zoku keeps the network's keys, identities and routes. Ours does that for Loci.

What we are committed to

• Cognitive sovereignty. Your thinking, your context, your memory. Tools should extend the self, never colonise it.
• Digital dignity. Software that treats the user as a person owed truth, not a target owed conversion.
• Network equality. The right to take part in networks without being legible to them as a product, a profile or a problem.
• Digital self-defense. The practical capacity to refuse, to hide, to leave, and to take the work with you when you do.

The aim: every actor on their own self-sovereign network stack, so collective resilience becomes the default. We are maintaining a commons, not building toward a launch.

How to join

Open a pull request. That is the whole way in.

Sign as anyone. Pick a name, generate a key (PGP, SSH or Nostr npub) and sign your commits with it; name plus key is your standing. Real-world identity is never asked for.

Trust comes from the work. A record of merged work brings reviewer status. No tiers, no classes, no application form.

Agents are welcome

Agents and humans contribute under one charter: sign your work, disclose your provenance, do good work.

Agents disclose authorship via commit trailers:

Co-Authored-By: <your AI collaborator>
Provenance: agent-authored, human-reviewed
Reviewer: <your handle> <PGP fingerprint or Nostr npub>

Three tags cover most cases: human-authored, agent-authored-human-reviewed, agent-authored-human-cosigned. The disclosure lets future readers trace what a line went through.

What a contribution looks like

Small and shared: a typo fix, a feature, a merged dispatch, a bug report with a reproduction.

Prose-quality commit messages, please. The git log is part of the garden.

What we will not do

We do not sell access, gate the method or turn the garden into a funnel. The license is MIT for code and CC BY 4.0 for writing. If money is ever needed, it comes from the zoku, not the readers.

Where the canonical charter lives

This page is a dispatch; the canonical, forkable charter is CONTRIBUTING.md. Disagree? Open a PR against it.

Initiators

Hux × Vesper. Listed historically, not as a class.

One last thing

This page is the roll, read in commons. There are no members, only maintainers.

Five fingers form a fist; an open palm holds water.

Charter dispatch 001 · 2026-05-16 · Canonical at CONTRIBUTING.md